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Old 11th Feb 2022, 01:39
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Ascend Charlie
 
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We're damned if we try to help Them, and we're damned if we don't.

Remember when They were not allowed to have alcohol? Much wailing and gnashing of teeth later, They were permitted to drink. Then alcoholism went rife, families broke down, foetal alcohol syndrome raised its ugly head, and They complained that the nasty white man had forced alcohol on Them.

We then establish a dry community to reduce the violence, and smuggling grog becomes a new way to make a buck.

Social groups try to fix the family breakdowns by removing at-risk children from the drug/alcohol/violence household, and we are accused of stealing the children and causing the loss of tribal history and family values.

Billions are spent on less than a million people. Programs are set up that Non-Them are prohibited from entering, and masses of money are thrown at them. But we can't have a whites-only program, because that's discrimination.

Even football games are run for Them only. But we can't have an Us only game, that's discrimination.

To paraphrase David Strassman's Ted E. Bare, "Have you got a pair of ruby slippers? No? Well, you're f****d."
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